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If you're a Sprint subscriber you must be feeling a little sorry about yourself amid the new unlimited offers from T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T. Well, fret no more because if yo own a Nokia phone tethered to a network, the No-Key Nokia X-SIM can break you out of jail. You can use the No-Key Nokia...

The new 1.1.4 jailbreak iNdependence boasts a easy-to-use interface but currently works only for Mac. The iNdependence home page is user-friendly as well. The instructions are easy-to-read and the writers have even provided a FAQ page, which I'm sure would be very helpful to some people. If you are...

Chute, a concept phone that is partially made of bamboo, has competition from designer Gert-Jan van Breugel. Simply called Bamboo, the material for the case is 100% bio-degradable bamboo and bio-plastic combination. Simply remove the antenna, battery and print board and put the rest of the cell...

Okay, Krusell only manufactures carrying cases for cell phones but if they say Nokia is king again, who can disagree with them? Krusell made its top ten cell phone list based on the orders of handset-specific carrying cases. The numbers were relevant for the month of February. Krusell cases is sold...

O2 just got the nod from Apple to distribute the iPhone in Ireland beginning March 12. It remains to see whether the iPhone will be receive the same hyped-up reception that U.S. iPhone did. To tell the truth, iPhone Europe was pretty lackluster and the Irish are not exactly known to be big spenders...

Garmin does an Apple when it dubbed its GPS-equipped mobile phone. Apparently "Nuvifone" infringes on the Nuvio Corp's trademark. Nuvio Corp is an internet phone provider, much like Linksys's Iphone is. Nuvio makes a point that "[Their] customers commonly refer to our service as the Nuvio phone."...

Apple may consider selling the iPhone unlocked or, at least, in another way besides giving exclusivity to one carrier per country. The Apple iPhone has been experiencing relatively lukewarm sales since it launched in Europe, complemented by equally lackluster turn over in the U.S. Despite it, Apple...

Someone made an analysis of Australian law, particularly Australia's competition law. The iPhone has undergone a similar challenge in Europe but in Australia, iPhone's practice of only letting one wireless provider distribute the iPhone under a two-year contract might actually stick. Dale Clapperton...

No one knows exactly if firmware 1.1.4 paves the way for SDK but it is now available. The update is all of 162.1MB, so besides the bug fixes Apple must have something bigger in store. For legitimate AT&T iPhones and iPhones subscribed to their exclusive providers in Europe, there has been no...

The cellphone of the future, if the world's number handset manufacturer gets its way, will be made of flexible materials, self-cleaning and absorbs solar power efficiently. This is Nokia Morph, Nokia's concept phone of the future that will be injected with the latest in nanotechnology. Nokia will...

Asus will have us think that a cellphone can go as fast as a Lamborghini or at least look fast. Though we doubt that using the same race-car design on a PDA phone that worked considerably well on an Asus laptop will get first adopters lining up, it's about a handset gets race car stripes. We were...

Everyone was predicting the death of BlackBerry when the iPhone came out, but, guess what, BB is more popular than ever. And it's not only business types that going CrackBerry but regular people like you and me as well. RIM made a forecast of 1.82 million subscribers in the fiscal fourth quarter....

Spanish Bank La Caixa, which is primarily a savings bank, unrolled a new ATM service that allows clients to access their money through their handsets. I do not have the details on how secure the transactions will be, but customers can perform any number of transactions they usually do in front of an...

The iPhone is a wonderful phone and even after 6 months in the market it has remained unsurpassed in features. One feature that iPhone has it bad compared to other phones in its price range is the camera. A 2 megapixel camera just does hold up well against the 5 megapixel variant that old players...

Melbourne University researchers have achieved up to 5Gbps data transfer rates on a wireless chip. This is a lot faster than any current WiFi speeds. Dubbed GiFi, for obvious reasons, it can deliver the connection speed up to ten meters. To fully comprehend how fast GiFi is, one of the researchers...

If you enjoy the Java games in your cellphone, you will definitely get a kick out what Fly has to offer. The MC100 (photo on the left) looks like an ordinary even low-end cellphone but it's got one thing the Nokias and the Sony Ericssons do not have - NES, SNES and Game Boy support. Though we had a...

The results from our latest poll are in: It seems that 53.55% of you now use your cell phone as your primary telephone or home phone. Approximately 30% of you still haven't made the switch and the other 16 or so %, well, you're really lagging behind with your carrier pigeons. Thanks to all who...

zzzPhone's business model is simple. Sell cellphones like Dell sells computers and offer the best features at the lowest price. It is similar to Bug Labs but far cheaper and the features do not come in modules and are permanently built into the handset. Unlike Bug Labs, the zzzPhone actually looks...

The "mobile internet" concept is a huge fraud foisted on Canadian consumers. Wireless providers in Canada have managed to convince thousands of people that that they need to be able to browse websites and check email on their mobile phones and PDAs, and then they charge them astronomically...

The N82 is now available in the U.S. via Buy.com and Amazon. The N82 is Nokia's current best camera phone with a 5 MP Carl Zeiss lens and a Xenon flash. The N82 is available at a lower price from Buy.com for only $479.99 and from Amazon for only $498.99. Both online retailers offer free...